David Burnham, a distinguished journalist, has published: Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice; Scribner; 1996. 444 pp. $27.50. ISBN 0-684-80699-1 The chapter, "Keeping Track of the American People: The Unblinking Eye and Giant Ear," nails wizard surveillance, surreptitous entry and other security-beats-privacy technotoxins: A solid argument can be made that in shaping and directing the FBI's investigative technologies from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, Al Bayse, assistant FBI director, Technical Services Division, may well be the nation's single most influential law enforcement official since J. Edgar Hoover. Burnham cogently details DOJ and NSA plots, the bull-market in federal prosecutors, the pathology of "national security" abuse, encryption nightmares, subservient politics, careerism absent ethics. He admonishes "sleeping watchdogs" complicit with the nation's leading agency for burgeoning instrusiveness.